Women's freestyle 55 kg at the 2012 World Championships
Venue	Millennium Place
Dates	28 September 2012
Competitors	17 from 17 nations
Medalists
Saori Yoshida    Japan   Helen Maroulis    United States   Geeta Phogat    India   Maria Prevolaraki    Greece
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2012 World Wrestling Championships
	48 kg	63 kg
	51 kg	67 kg
	55 kg	72 kg
	59 kg
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The women's freestyle 55 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada on 28 September 2012.

This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winners of two bronze medals.

Legend

• F — Won by fall

	Final
	Saori Yoshida (JPN)	2	4F
	Helen Maroulis (USA)	0	0

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Ana Maria Pavăl (ROU)	0	0
							Yang Chen (CHN)	3	5
													Yang Chen (CHN)	2	0
													Nataliya Synyshyn (UKR)	4	1
							Aurélie Basset (FRA)	0	1
							Nataliya Synyshyn (UKR)	4	3
																			Nataliya Synyshyn (UKR)	4	0	0
																			Saori Yoshida (JPN)	0	1	3F
							Geeta Phogat (IND)	0	1	2
							Maria Gurova (RUS)	4	1	1
													Geeta Phogat (IND)	0	0
													Saori Yoshida (JPN)	1	3F
							Saori Yoshida (JPN)	3F
							Akziya Dautbayeva (KAZ)	0

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Batbaataryn Nomin-Erdene (MGL)	1	1	0
							Brittanee Laverdure (CAN)	0	1	1
													Brittanee Laverdure (CAN)	1	0	3
													Katarzyna Krawczyk (POL)	0	3	0
							Katarzyna Krawczyk (POL)	5	4F
							Yarina Dubovska (AZE)	1	0
																			Brittanee Laverdure (CAN)	0	2
																			Helen Maroulis (USA)	5	4
							Nadzeya Mikhalkova (BLR)	1	0
							Helen Maroulis (USA)	3	2F
													Helen Maroulis (USA)	3	2
													Maria Prevolaraki (GRE)	0	0
							Maria Prevolaraki (GRE)	0	4	2F
	Joice Silva (BRA)	5	1				Joice Silva (BRA)	1	2	1
	Lenka Martináková (CZE)	0	0

	Repechage round 2						Bronze medals
	Akziya Dautbayeva (KAZ)	1	0				Geeta Phogat (IND)	1	1
	Geeta Phogat (IND)	1	4				Nataliya Synyshyn (UKR)	0	0
	Nadzeya Mikhalkova (BLR)	0	0				Maria Prevolaraki (GRE)	1	1
	Maria Prevolaraki (GRE)	1	2				Brittanee Laverdure (CAN)	0	0

• Results Book – Page 17^{[permanent dead link‍]}